( clarke doesn't say "i have a friend who could hack past your firewalls with her eyes closed" because that feels like fighting words. and raven reyes isn't even here to back her up in a deathmatch.

she does however, take that laugh and commit it to memory. it feels like agreement, and if they ever go through this again, she's going to make max play her in cards a second time, and do all the shuffling. )

Hm. Would that we were all so prepared. Maybe this wouldn't have ever happened if we'd all taken precaution and... I don't know, tattooed protection wards on ourselves. ( they live on a literal ghost ship and somehow no one thought of this... )